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The Florists^ Review 



August 14, 1919. 



Seed Trade News 



AMEHICAN SEED TKADE ASSOCIATItN. 

 President, B. C. Dungan, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 •ecretary-treasurer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 



Rain did not come in time to save all 

 the Illinoig sweet corn. 



Grades are not so important this year ; 

 what is wanted is ' ' just peas. ' ' 



Heat and drought have reduced the 

 yields of English seed farms consider- 

 ably. 



The bulb merchants believe they see a 

 profit in handling this year 's short crops. 

 Frequently the profit is lost in cleaning 

 up the surplus. 



George Tegelaar, of Drevon-Tegelaar 

 & Co., returned from OUioules, France, on 

 the Canada, which docked at Hoboken at 

 the end of July. 



The onion set harvest at Chicago is 

 progressing slowly. Labor of the kind 

 relied on by the large growers in ofher 

 years is difficult to obtain. 



Even if the high prices check bulb buy- 

 ing to some extent, there is more likeli- 

 hood of difficulty in filling orders than 

 in disposing of a surplus. 



The heat and drought of July proved 

 generally detrimental, and in some cases 

 seriously damaging to seed crops in the 

 cen^tral part of the country. 



Seeds exported by Holland, through 

 the port of Amsterdam to the United 

 States, declined from $652,255 in 1915 to 

 $319,816 in 1916 and to $93,336 in 1917, 

 but rose again in 1918 to $288,891, 



In a lawsuit arising from the late de- 

 livery of Holland bulbs in 1917, Polder 

 Bros., of Montebello, Cal., received a ver- 

 dict in their favor, successfully defending 

 their case against the Dutch firm which 

 brought suit. 



After rising from $97,125 in 1915 to 

 $134,995 in 1916, bulb exports from Hol- 

 land to the United States, through the 

 port of Amsterdam, dropped to $74,607 in 

 1917 and $66,444 in 1918. Most of the 

 bulbs, it should be remembered, come by 

 way of Rotterdam. 



The Federal Horticultural Board re- 

 cently ordered that all Japanese lily bulb 

 imports must come through the port of 

 Seattle, there not being inspection facili- 

 ties at every port of entry. Before word 

 could be sent to Japan, shipments of 

 Formosa bulbs were on the way to Amer- 

 ican houses via Vancouver, and it is 

 understood some Chinese lilies also had 

 been shipped that way. The board has 

 made arrangements to have these ship- 

 ments inspected on arrival at Chicago, in- 

 stead of requiring the importers to send 

 them to Seattle from Vancouver. It is 

 only an emergency arrangement. 



PAPER WHITES ON THE P ATRIA. 



When the manifest of the Patria, 

 from Marseilles, became available it 

 was found that the steamer had 

 brought 6,358 cases of bulbs, princi- 

 pally Paper Whites. This was con- 

 siderably less than had been expected. 

 The consignees were: 



Consignee Cnsps 



Mlohell. H. F., Co 527 



VatiRhan's Seed Store 530 



Honry & Lee ],ir)4 



Meyer, Chas. F 96 



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